“A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.”

“Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.”

“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

“And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep deceiving yourself in the hope that she might wake up one morning and have gone back to the woman she used to be? May be, Caleb thinks with a small shock, he isn't the same person he once was, either.”

“It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.”

“A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...”